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White roses and thorns (YDR opinion)

York Daily Record editorial

Updated:
08/31/2014 08:11:20 AM EDT

York's annual Labor Day Parade will conclude at Kiwanis Lake. (File)

WHITE ROSES >> To the York-Adams Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO, for organizing the annual York Labor Day Parade. The event will start at 10 a.m. at Small Athletic Field, run through the downtown and finish at Kiwanis Lake. Come out and celebrate York's great workforce.

ROSES >> To York Traditions Bank and the York Revolution for teaming up to sponsor the Halloween Parade, the 4th of July fireworks display and other events. It's wonderful that these two businesses have stepped forward to keep these, well, York traditions alive and well.

ROSES >> Speaking of traditions, to the exhibitors at last weekend's Yorkfest event in York. Good weather on Sunday made for a fabulous day to enjoy art along the rail trail.

ROSES >> Posthumously, to Michael Warehime for his many years of community service and generosity. The chairman of the Snyder's Lance board of directors died last weekend at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. He was 73.

ROSES >> To the start of a new school year. Good luck to students and teachers as they begin their academic journeys.

ROSES >> To those who volunteered to help with the archeological dig at the site of Camp Security, which began this week. After a slow start, the volunteers came up with some pretty cool finds: coins, buttons, musket balls, etc.

ROSES >> To the York NAACP for holding a public forum to discuss community relations with police — and to local police officials for participating in the discussion. It was a valuable and well-attended forum.

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ROSES >> To Penn State for its exciting opening game today against Central Florida at Croke Park in Dublin, Ireland. Roses to PSU fans who made the trek to watch the game.

ROSES >> To Penn State York for finding a cool, trendy way to feed students while The Lion's Den dining area on campus is closed for renovations: Food trucks.

ROSES >> Speaking of food trucks, to the organizers of the Foodstruck event set for Sunday in York's Penn Park. This promises to be the best fest yet.

THORNS >> To hotels for following the lead of airlines and increasingly tacking fees on to guests' bills for services that have traditionally been complementary — such as having the hotel hold luggage a bit before check-in time.

ROSES >> To officials with York County government for holding a job fair Wednesday, seeking to fill about 150 vacancies. Officials said they'd attended job fairs in other counties looking for good employees, so why not hold their own event in their home county. Good — though fairly obvious — thinking.

ROSES >> To the National Volunteer Fire Council for creating Share the Load, which offers counseling and other services to firefighters struggling with stress, depression, addiction, PTSD and related issues. The Share the Load hotline number is 1-888-731-3473.

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